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HI MI Safety Match Holder.- No. 48,132. r v Patented June 6, 1865.

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HELEN M. JEWETT, OF RCXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNIVERSAL SAFETY MATCH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SAFETY-MATCH HOLDER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 4S,l32, dated June 6, 1865.

To all whom it mag concern.-

Be it known that I, HELEN M. JEwE'r'r, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Safety-Match Holder; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a horizontal section, and Fig. 4 a vertical section, of it, the covers beingexhibited as closed. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of it as it appears with its covers raised.

The match safe or box in question is particularly intended not only for holding a quantity of those safety-matches which only ignite by friction against a card or surface prepared with an igniting-composition, but also to carry a pack of such cards, and have one or more cardholders distinct from the pack-holder. It also contains a chamber for waste or burned matches.

In the drawings, Adenotes the receptacle for the matches, it being open at top and pro-. vided with a cover, a. In rear of the same are two other receptacles or chambers, B C, each of which is open at one end, and is provided with a cover, b or c. The cover 0 of the rearmost receptacle, 0, is of sufficient size that when turned down upon the cover I) it will entirely overlap it, the object of such being to exhibit but one cover to the two chambers B C when the cover 0 is closed, and to cause the cover I) to protect the pack or contents of the chamber B from the tire which may drop from a waste match during the act of moving it over such chamber for the purpose of introducing it into the'receptacle C. The chamber B is to hold a pack of theigniting-cards. In connection with said chambers or receptacles A B C, the matchbox has one or more igniting-card receivers or carriers, D D, each of which consists of a plate, e, and two flanges,ff, or the same and an abutment or plate, 9, the said flanges being projected or bent over the surface so as to hold the card against the same when it is between such surface and flanges.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A safety-match box or holder composed of the match, pack, and waste receptacles A B C and one or more igniting card holders, D, the whole being for use as specified.

2. The match-safe made of the three receptacles A B C and one or more card-holders, D, and having the cover c of the rearmost receptacle so constructed as when clbsed down upon the cover b of the pack-receptacle it shall entirely overlap it, as set forth.

3. The match-safe as not only made with the match, pack, waste, and igniting-card receptacles, but with separate covers to the waste and pack receptacles, the same being in order that the pack-receptacle may beprotected from fire or sparks dropped from a match while in the act of being moved over the pack-receptacle for the purpose of being inserted in the waste-receptacle.

HELEN M. J EWETT.

I Witnesses:

S. E. SEWALL, GEo. T. ANGELL. 

